Factorio vs. Satisfactory

[Dwolfin]

Thoughts?

Which is better (I bet there wont be an overwhelming answer to this)

Why is it better? Is there something you dont like about the other game?

What makes the one better than the other?

[PunCrathod]

Factorio is actually released while Satisfactory is just early access. Ask again once Satisfactory actually releases.

[Hurkyl]

Satisfactory is a 3D environment. Factorio is top-down interface. This matters a lot to some people. I think this is what I've heard most from people advocating for Satisfactory being better at something.

(but this same contrast also a reason some people find Factorio better, so this depends on your preferences)

Satisfactory is significantly cheaper for part of the year. Although if Factorio is more to your liking, it's probably a lot more to your liking, enough to make up the difference.

[Khaylain]

They're both "Factory building" games, but that's about where the similarities end. Satisfactory has a limited amount of endless nodes, Factorio has endless amount of limited ore patches. Satisfactory is in 3D, which can make it harder to line things up with each other (although this has been somewhat mitigated recently) but also gives a bit more freedom with how to do things compared to the 2D nature of Factorio.

Personally I prefer Factorio, but Satisfactory isn't bad either. They're both fun, but in different ways. Choose the poison you prefer.

[Morsk]

These are basically opposite games. In Factorio you are always in the perfect overhead perspective to view your factory, dozens of machines and hundreds of items moving. Factorio belts have a cheated camera perspective that faces directly up and lets you see items flowing perfectly, on massive scales. You can zoom in and out, and watch any part of the map you like.

Satisfactory is not just 3D, but 3D where the player is tiny and can't see very much. There are a ton of 3D building games, but I don't know any others like this. It works for making the factory huge but you just don't get to see much at the same time and that's a big difference.

[DaBa]

Can't directly compare both games since they have too many differences between them, if not for the factory building elements they wouldn't even look similar next to each other, that's literally the only thing that they have in common. Everything else is different.

But if you want to make an objective statement then it's really not that hard now is it? One game is still in early access, the other game had undergone over 10 years of development and content additions. It's not even a contest, nor is that a fair comparison.

Although, estimating based on what we've seen from Coffee Stain so far, the rate at which we've seen it and the general quality of it, I still don't think Satisfactory could come close to Factorio even if you gave it the same amount of dev time. From where I stand, one of the dev teams is clearly better at their jobs, or simply did a better job with everything starting with creating a good foundation upon which they can build their game, and ending with the actual execution of their vision.

[Zukabazuka]

The recipe in Satisfactory that you need to build in order to make T2 belt take like a minute to build. This is the among the first double item recipe you build. This item is used to build T2 belts. So generally it feels like Satisfactory haven't really got the build times even, they just feel like being all over the places. Where previous item need like 1-5 seconds to build but the item you are gonna build jump up to 1 minute or longer and you need like 5000 of these items.

But if you want a 3D world similar to Factorio then yeah Satisfactory is good enough for that and you can build some impressive buildings if you have the skills for it. I would just mod out the combat in the game, its not moving anywhere.

[Ydyp]

I would go for Dyson Sphere Program, no further comments needed. Or just play the games you like.

PS: you can like more then one game even if they are in the same genre and there is no need to compare. None of thementioned games are a carbon copy.

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by 🐬 Dwolfin 🐺:

Which is better (I bet there wont be an overwhelming answer to this)

Neither

Originally posted by 🐬 Dwolfin 🐺:

Why is it better? Is there something you dont like about the other game?

What makes the one better than the other?

2d can have more functionality and is easier to comprehend.
3d can become cluttery and has an increased performance requirements.
2d doesn't have that many layers of overlapping.
3d can overlap everything and everywhere.
2d is easier to develop, so - more exquisite features.
3d is harder to develop, thus will always have less interesting features and more bugs
2d doesn't have physics.
3d has/can have some kind of physics.
2d has an overview
3d is firstperson

Basically - both are ♥♥♥♥♥♥ in their own way.

[Graf Erik]

Obviously, better is a matter of taste.

As has been pointed out, factorio is 2d, satisfactory is 3d.
3d looks better. 2d is easier to use, much faster.
Factorio is more complex in reagards to buildings, technologies and recipes, satisfactory is more complex in regards to building itself (the act of placing objects in a 3d environment).

In factorio you're in a constant struggle against a hostile environment. Your resources deplete, the biters evolve and spread. Its you and your machines against them, forever. Its completly possible to lose this game if you're careless, the biters get to strong and cut you of from neccessary resources.
In satisfactory there is alien life, and its hostile, but it doesn't spread. As long as you dont stumble over them its harmeless. It also will never attack your buildings. And resources are infite. Together it means that satisfactory is more relaxed, you have all the time in the world. You cant lose, its not possible.

Satisfactory has one map. Factorio has procedural map generation.
Satisfactory has an element of exploration, fps action and combat, Factorio has no exlporation but more complex (2d) combat.

[puschit]

Also Factorio has a metric gigaton of Mods available. And Wube assured that modding is as easy as possible. That alone gives Factorio the edge since you can mod it basically into anything except, well, beim 3D. But honestly, for what Factorio wants to be, 3D is no option anyway.

[Vyndicu]

Originally posted by 🐬 Dwolfin 🐺:

Thoughts?

Which is better (I bet there wont be an overwhelming answer to this)

Why is it better? Is there something you dont like about the other game?

What makes the one better than the other?

Factorio has been released for a good while now. Factorio is a very well-polished video game with a thriving mods scene. There are a few minor grips with Factorio, and you can usually tweak or mod those issues out of Factorio.

I tried to get into Satisfactory, but they have a weird fetish for giving you Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Repetitive Strain Injury. The 3D world concept is a great idea, and I would rather play something a little less time-consuming.


So why not take the best of each world and play them together in this mod?

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Satisfactorio

[douglasduck]

Factorio is a Factory Building simulator - you play it because you enjoy solving problems, taking inputs, turning them into outputs and then sending it onward for building more complex items. There is no rest - only the desire to see the factory grow.

Satisfactory is a factory Building simulator - you play it because you enjoy building the factory itself - placing each and every machine in an orderly fashion, making sure the belts are aligned and feed neatly into the next step of production. Options exist to decorate your factory and you take satisfaction in using them to turn a functional piece into works of art. And at the end of your labours you simply rest, look over all you have made, and be pleased with it.

[Zefar]

Factorio unlike Satisfactory gives me more of that dopamine rush of seeing belts being completely full.

Satisfactory is far slower than Factorio and when I went to replay it from start you basically just had to wait for things to get done before I could continue building my base.
I really just had to wait for materials to be built so that I could use it to upgrade my tiers to get new buildings.

In Factorio I could do other things while waiting for the other thing getting done.

So for me Factorio is superior.

[Jerry Atrick]

Engineer/Designer vs Construction Worker.

[dxmc]

The one thing that came to bother me about Satisfactory is the physics-defying construction. Platforms can be built in the air with no support, incredible bridges and switchbacks can be built with no respect for gravity. I loved creating and automating long supply routes but the absurdity of what I was doing much of the time really took away from the feeling of immersion.